L&D Shakers Book Club: Talk to the Elephant by Julie Dirksen

​Training is created with the goal of changing learners’ behaviors, but anyone who has created learning experiences knows that there’s a big gap between knowing and doing.

​In the last few decades, the fields of psychology, behavioral economics, and other behavioral sciences have brought an enormous amount of scientific research into helping people with behavior change. Only a fraction of that research has made its way back into learning design.

​Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change shows you how to add critical tools to your learning design toolbox to affect behavior change.

​By the end of this book, you’ll be able to:

• ​Map the change journey of your learners and identify their path

• ​Assess and clearly communicate the value of the change

• ​Use motivation models to better understand what learners really care about

• ​Utilize evidence-based models like the COM-B Model to analyze behavior-change challenges

• ​Use a diagnostic checklist to determine whether you actually have a training problem

• ​Identify behavior-change techniques to address your specific challenges

​We're gathering to share our insights about the book on November 28th—See you there!